Twitter has been around for 8 years now, so you’d think its backend would be able to cope with even the biggest of traffic spikes. But apparently not, as last night the social network crashed, and it was Ellen DeGeneres’ fault.

DeGeneres is incredibly popular on Twitter, having 26.7 million followers. She was also the host of the 86th Academy Awards last night, and decided to capture a selfie to post to her followers. This was no ordinary selfie, though. DeGeneres got Bradley Cooper to hold her Samsung smartphone at arm’s length while the following celebrities crowded round to fit in the shot:

Angelina Jolie

Brad Pitt

Channing Tatum

Lupita Nyong’o and her brother

Jared Leto

Jennifer Lawrence

Julia Roberts

Meryl Streep

Kevin Spacey

Until that photo was uploaded to Twitter, the record holder for retweets was President Obama. He got 781,564 retweets and 295,763 favorites for an image he uploaded of himself and his wide embracing after winning a second term back in 2012.

DeGeneres’s photo soared past that retweet total in just over half an hour. At time or writing it had received 2,417,828 retweets and 1,178,057 favorites. It seems unlikely that’s going to be the final total, though.

The tweet was so popular it temporarily crashed Twitter as a service around 10pm EST for 20 minutes. The Oscars as a whole certainly put a massive strain on its network. During the live show 14.7 million tweets were sent related to the event, it also did nothing to harm DeGeneres’ social reach, with her follower growth 47x greater than her average daily growth.

The fact that Twitter handled so many tweets, dealt with its most popular tweet ever, and only stumbled during a record-breaking peak, shows it must be doing something right. I also can’t see any tweet coming close to this A-lister selfie anytime soon, meaning Twitter looks to be in good shape handling any near future awards events or anything that causes a massive spike in activity for that matter.